Some Special Topics

This Page's Contenets:

• Black Holes
• Einstein and Relativity Theory
• Cosmology
• Educational - From Introductions to Getting Into the Subject
• Course and Student Websites on Cosmology
• Some Media Coverage, Articles
• Historical Development of Modern Cosmology
• Theorists
• Experiments
• Dark Matter and Dark Energy
• Dark Matter
• Alternatives to Dark Matter Theory
• Dark Energy
• Gravitational Lensing
• Extra-Solar Planets
• Some Specific Topics Covered Elsewhere on this Website

Black Holes

• Beyond the Event Horzon @ Peoria Astronomical Society
• Curious About Astronomy? Black Holes and Quasars Cornell University.
• Chandra X-ray Observatory Center (AXAF)
• X-Ray Sources - Black Holes
  Six subsections about black holes.
• Frontiers of the Universe
  Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, NASA.
• Black Holes
• Black Holes: The Ultimate Abyss
  By Dr. Richard Smith, 3 September 1997 @ Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC), Slab archive
  A popular level talk which you can read or listen to.
• Royal Observatory Greenwhich
  Look for Black Holes and related topics in the Astronomy Fact Files.
• Cambridge Relativity
• Introduction to Black Holes
• Astronomy 102 - Black Holes, Time Warps, and the Large-scale Structure of the Universe,
  Course notes by Dan Watson @ Rochester University
• ASTRO 201 Fall 1996 @ Cornell University:
• Black Hole Candidates
• THE BLACK HOLE CANDIDATE NOVA MUSCAE 1991
• THE BLACK HOLE CANDIDATE CYGNUS X-1
• Black Hole planetarium show
  Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
• Black Holes
  At the Official Superstring Theory website. Basic and advanced articles.
• Spacetime Wrinkles NCSA
  Relativity and Black Holes.
• Cygnus X-1
• A Milky Way Galaxy Galactic Mystery by Trudy Bell.
  About evidence for a black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
• Black Holes and Quasars
  By David R Lisk. A personal website in which he describes his own understanding. 1997.
• Black Holes and Neutron Stars by Chris Miller.
• Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars Page
• NOVA - Monster of the Milky Way PBS
  About how astronomers looked for a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way, and about what they found. Much additional information about the science of black holes.
• Horizon - Supermassive Black Holes BBC Horizon documentary. 2000.
• The Hawking Paradox BBC Horizon documentary.
• The Hubble Space Telescope school-level education site Amazing Space does have some pages and activities about Black Holes. In my judgement, they provide just a little information and understanding.
• Also see the Stars page, in particular the Stellar Evolution section and the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution subsection.
• Also see Relativity and Cosmology below.

Einstein and Relativity Theory

A comment from me: Sometimes you see writers and educators say that in order to understand relativity you need to divorce yourself from everyday experience. I think this is fundamentally the wrong approach and a trap. Einstein did not come up with what he did by divorcing himself from experience. On the contrary, he immersed himself in the physics as it was then known to him. And he went after what felt missing to him. I can't see how one can really understand relativity without going through the same process. Relativity has to be evaluated in terms of the evidence it explains, as well as doesn't explain. And it has to be weighed out with other relevant ideas. You have to be able to see this through your own experience, not just through the eyes of someone else who seems clever. Furthermore, if you divorce yourself from experience, you cut yourself off from going beyond what Einstein did. You'll stay dependent on what you're told.

• Relativity on the World Wide Web
  Original by Chris Hillman; maintained by John Baez. Pointer to websites from popular level to graduate courses.
• Relativity FAQ
• Curious About Astronomy? The Theory of Relativity Cornell University.
• Relativity and Space-time @ ASTRO 201 General Topics Cornell University course.
• A Science Odyssey PBS mini-series:
• People and Discoveries:
• Einstein Publishes the Special Theory of Relativity, 1905
• Einstein Announces the General Theory of Relativity, 1915
• NOVA Online/Einstein's Big Idea:
• Relativity (Alan Lightman Essay)
• Einstein - Past, Present and Future
  Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 2003.
• BBC - Final Frontier - Space & Time
• Albert Einstein: Person of the Century Time Magazine. January 2000.
  Articles by Frederic Golden, Stephen Hawkings, J. Madeleine Nash and Roger Rosenblatt.
• The Day the Universe Went All Funny - An introduction to Special Relativity
  by Kenny Felder
• Galileo & Einstein
  By Michael Fowler (home page of Physics 109N course for non-scientists). This history of science course contains a number of sections on relativity theory, including its historical development.
• Relativity, Spacetime and the Cosmos
  Jose Wudka, UC Riverside. A historical survey course for non-science majors.
• 1922 Solar Eclipse in Australia - Testing Einstein's Theory of Relativity
• Relativity Tutorial
  @ Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial (see Cosmology section below)
• Spacetime Wrinkles NCSA, University of Illinois.
  Relativity and Black Holes.
• The Light Cone - An Illuminating Introduction to Relativity, plus Relativity: bookmarks
  Syracuse University.
• Cambridge Relativity
• David W. Hogg on Special Relativity NYU
• Gravity Probe B Stanford University.
  Includes some educational literature and a Relativity Q & A by Dr. Sten Odenwald.
• Albert Einstein Archives
  Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Albert Einstein Online
• Special Relativity Down to Earth by Wesley Colley, 6 July 2000 - Suite101.com
• Also see:
• Physics.
• Einstein
• 20th Century History
• Intermediate Book suggestions.

Cosmology

I chose to place many Cosmology links here because I find them all useful. To help you locate links more easily, I had to organize them in some way. In practice, information in one subsection could be placed in another as well. Although the first subsection is titled educational, everything is educational. I especially highlighted very useful educational materials by theorists, by reseach groups and at experiment pages. Part of my reason for choosing this organization was so that you can more clearly see where the information comes from.

• Educational - From Introductions to Getting Into the Subject
• Course and Student Websites
• Some Media Coverage, Articles
• Historical Development of Modern Cosmology
• Theorists
• Experiments

• Also see Relativity above. Current cosmology theories are based on Relativity theory.
• Also see Dark Matter and Dark Energy below.
• For early ideas on cosmology, please see the History of Astronomy page.
• Also see Physics.
• Also see Intermediate Book suggestions.

Educational - From Introductions to Getting Into the Subject

• Leicester University Guide to Space
• The Universe
• Violence in the Cosmos
  Mike Guidry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Based on a popular level talk given in 1995.
  Browse the whole website because most of the content is relevant to Cosmology.
• BBC Science & Nature - Space - Origins
  The Big Bang, detecting its signal, Inflation Theory, antimatter, origin of the solar system, and the end of the universe.
• Cosmology
  Royal Observatory Greenwich.
• Padua Observatory (Italy)
• See Voyage to the Universe Astronomy for All -- Advanced Level: Cosmology
  This section no longer appears to be updated. But it is still kept online. This is a well-written introduction.
• Curious About Astronomy? Cosmology and the Big Bang Cornell University.
• Astronomy 108 The Astounding Cosmos
  Survey of modern astronomy course for non-science majors. A chapter about cosmology follows several chapters about galaxies. Dr. Joe Howard. Salisbury State University, Maryland.
• Nick Strobel's College Level Astronomy Lecture Notes
  See the Cosmology chapter.
• Imagine the Universe
  A website about astrophysics for teen level and above. High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center @ NASA GSFC.
• Origin and Destiny of the Universe
• Advanced Science pages has more discussion in depth.
• Life in the Universe
  A significant part of this website is about the origins of our universe and what is in it. That includes the Big Bang, origin of elements, origins of galaxies, stars, planets, and life. Also included are disussions of open questions. This website supported a student science program run throughout Europe in 2001.
• The Astronomy Cafe
  Dr. Sten Odenwald's essays on Cosmology, Big Bang Theory, and the Cosmic Microwave Background.
• Frontiers of the Universe
  Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, NASA.
• The Hubble Diagram
  Redshifts and the expanding universe. Sloan Digital Sky Survey Education Projects
• APOD: Cepheid Variables in M100
  Cepheid Variables as indicators of distance and expansion of the Universe. Astronomy Picture of the Day 1996 January 10.
• Also see Cepheid Variable Star links in Variable Stars.
• A Review of the Universe
  Intermediate to Advanced Level.
• Cornell Theory Center - Explorations 1996.
  Online interactive science presentations. Two are about cosmology. There are also other topics, including String Theory by Brian Greene. There are frames and basic text versions.
• Stephen Hawking's Universe
• Cambridge Cosmology
• Brief History of Cosmology
• Cosmology: A Research Briefing
• Cosmology / Inflation for Beginners by John Gribbon
• Wright Center for Science Education Home Page Tufts University.
• Cosmic Evolution.
• Cosmic Evolution Lecture Series
  At Boston Museum of Science. You can watch online.
• Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial, which includes:
• The ABC's of Distances
• Age of the Universe
• Michio Kaku Online

• Cosmos in a Computer,
  Navigation might be easier with the sitemap. SCIENCE FOR THE MILLENNIUM (NCSA)
• An introduction to Particle Physics @ Rutherford Appleton Lab., UK
• Big Bang Science - exploring the origins of matter
• Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) CalTech
• HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale
• Also see Course Websites on Cosmology below.

Course and Student Websites on Cosmology

• Physics 240 Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
  Michael Richmond. RIT.
• John F. Hawley. University of Virginia.
• Astro 124 Introduction to Stars, Galaxies and the Universe
• Foundations of Modern Cosmology
• Making Our World GS 265 (1996), Univ. of Michigan
• Back To The Future: An Inquiry of the History and Nature of Time
• The Universe and the Origins of Life
  Bernhard Beck-Winchatz, University of Washington. The lecture notes may be useful.
• Physics 410/510 Modern Observational Cosmology (course by G. Bothun)
• ASTR 3740 Relativity and Cosmology U. of Colorado, Boulder
  Includes links to some student papers.
• ASTR 5720 graduate cosmology course. U. of Colorado, Boulder.
  Links to cosmology papers and to student papers.

Some Media Coverage, Articles

• TIME Magazine 100- Scientists & Thinkers - Edwin Hubble
• A Science Odyssey PBS mini-series:
• People and Discoveries:
• Henrietta Leavitt Discovers a Correlation Between Cepheid Variable's Period and Luminosity, 1912
• Hubble Identifies a New Galaxy, 1924
• Edwin Hubble 1889-1950
• Big Bang Theory Introduced, 1927
• Hubble Finds Proof that the Universe is Expanding, 1929
• Penzias and Wilson Discover Cosmic Microwave Radiation, 1965
• Cosmic String Theory Introduced, 1976
• Suite101.com - Index of cosmology artilces
• Some articles by Wesley Colley, Suite101.Com:
• Formation of Structure in the Universe November 1, 1999
• The Cosmic Microwave Background September 30, 1999
• The Cosmic Distance Ladder I: Parallax October 29, 1998.
• The Cosmic Distance Ladder II: Stars as Standard Candles December 1, 1998.
• The Cosmic Distance Ladder, III: Measuring the Hubble Constant December 18, 1998.
• BBC Radio 4 - A Brief History of the End of Everything
  A series exploring how our ideas about the end of the universe have been shaped by religion, belief, and the contemporary state of scientific thinking and observation. Hosted by Vatican Astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno. 2004.
• BBC - Final Frontier
  Our Universe, Big Bang, Space & Time, more.
• Listening to the Big Bang by Fred Watson, 6 August 1997
  @ Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC), Slab archive
• Interview with Ben Allanach (CERN) Naked Scientist.
• Nat'l Public Radio Science Friday - Cosmology archive
  Also see related topics.
• Origins PBS | Nova.
• BBC Horizon Documentary - Parallel Universes February 14, 2002.
  A new possible explanation for the cause of the Big Bang. See what you think. Does the fact that some mathematical equations work prove that the physics is also true? The geocentric solar system theory "worked" for 16 centuries.
• NOVA | Runaway Universe (PBS) November 21, 2000.
• Research Channel
  See the Science section for a number of astronomy-cosmology online videos.
• NY Academy of Sciences Annals - Cosmic Questions December 2001.
  A number of articles about searching fundamental questions about the Universe and the cultural context. (Now requires a fee or membership in the Academy.)
• First Science.Com - Article Archive

Historical Development of Modern Cosmology

• A Brief History of Cosmology
  History of Mathematics @ Mac Tutor
• TIME Magazine 100- Scientists & Thinkers of the 20th Century March 29, 1999.
  Includes artilces about Hubble, Einstein, Gödel and Fermi.
• A Science Odyssey PBS mini-series:
• People and Discoveries:
• Henrietta Leavitt Discovers a Correlation Between Cepheid Variable's Period and Luminosity, 1912
• Hubble Identifies a New Galaxy, 1924
• Edwin Hubble 1889-1950
• Big Bang Theory Introduced, 1927
• Hubble Finds Proof that the Universe is Expanding, 1929
• Penzias and Wilson Discover Cosmic Microwave Radiation, 1965
• Cosmic String Theory Introduced, 1976
• Bell Laboratories History
• Penzias and Wilson's Discovery is One of the Century's Key Advances
• Arno Penzias' Homepage
• Great Debates in Astronomy
• The Nature of the Universe Debate in 1998
• History of Observational Cosmology Exhibit Opens at National Air and Space Museum
  by David DeVorkin, National Air and Space Museum. AIP Newsletter Spring 2002.
• Explore the Universe Exhibit at NASM.
• Cosmology Prize Recipients of the Peter Gruber Foundation

• Also see Relativity above.
• Also see History of Astronomy, 20th Century.
• For early ideas on cosmology, please see the History of Astronomy page.

Theorists and Reseach Groups

• University of Chicago
• Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
  University of Chicago.
• The New Cosmology: From Quantum Fuzz to the Accelerating Universe
  A Chautauqua Short Course for College Teachers, University of Chicago, October 26-28, 2001. A number of presentation papers (in PDF) by astrophysicists in the field. Includes links to Wayne Hu's web pages about the CMB. Also suggested books and websites.
• Alternate webpages at CARA University of Chicago.
• Resources
• Things everyone should know about their universe
  "Information for the inquisitive, including lecture slides, animations, laboratory activities, photos, and things everyone should know about their universe."
• CosmoSpeak: A Glossary for Aspiring Cosmologists, by Prof. Roger Hildebrand
• Cosmology Primer, by Prof. Sean Carroll
• Universe in a box - formation of large-scale structure
  Andrey Kravtsov, KICP, University of Chicago.
• Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica - CMBR research
  University of Chicago.
• Wayne Hu
  Associate Professor, University of Chicago. Includes a number of pages about various aspects of the Cosmic Microwave Background. I highlight a sample here:
• Cosmic Microwave Background Theory for Beginners
• The Physics of Microwave Background Anisotropies
• M.I.T.
• Prof. Alan H. Guth, MIT Department of Physics
  Created the Inflation Theory model in 1981. The webpage includes some history and links to colleagues.
• The Inflationary Universe, The Quest for New Theories of Cosmic Origins
  By Alan H. Guth. Forward by Alan Lightman. Addison-Wesley. © 1997.
  Dr. Guth's own account of how he came up with Inflation Theory. The book is very insightful and remarkably straight forward.
• Max Tegmark MIT
• Douglas Scott. Univeristy of British Columbia, Canada.
• The Cosmic Microwave Background
• U.C. Berkeley/ Lawrence Berkely National Laboratories
• Berkeley Cosmology Group
  Lawrence Berkely National Lab. The website has many resources.
• George Smoot's Cosmology Group
  Lawrence Berkely National Lab and UC Berkely.
  His groups works on the Cosmic Microwave Background and related astrophysics topics.
• Formation of the Elements in the Big Bang and in Stars.
• The Big Bang
• Antimatter in the Universe
• Joanne Cohn UC Berkeley. (Thanks for writing me.)
• What is Theoretical Cosmology? by Joanne Cohn.
• Cosmology in the News
• Martin White, UC Berkely.
• Princeton University
• Cosmology at Princeton University
• Cosmology Theory at Princeton
• Paul Steinhardt
• Superstring Theory Website
  By Patricia Schwarz includes a section on cosmology, with basic and advanced pages.
• LAMBDA - Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data NASA GSFC

Experiments

• Cosmic Background Explore (COBE)
  The satellite experiment before WMAP. NASA GSFC.
• Also see The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
  Awarded to John C. Mather and George Smoot "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation" using COBE.
• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) NASA GSFC
• Introduction to Cosmology
  Many topics discussed.
• MSAM-TopHat High Altitude Scientific Balloons measuring the anistrophy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
  The balloons are flown over the Antarctic. NASA GSFC
• Science Tutorial about the Cosmic Microwave Background and this research.
• MAXIMA (Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment Imaging Array)
• BOOMERanG (Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation an Geophysics
  Balloon observations of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies from Antarctica. Also see John Ruhl's Lab. UC Santa Barbara.
• Cosmology with Supernovae: The High-Z Supernova Search Harvard.
• High Redshift Supernova Search
  Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
  A second URL: High Redshift Supernova Survey
• Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe PDF format.
  By Saul Perlmutter, article in Physics Today. April 2003.
• The website also has many technical papers.
• Nearby Supernova Factory Berkeley Labs
  Automated experiment to detect more nearby Type 1A supernovae. Type 1A supernovae were used as "standard candles" to establish distances to galaxies. The distances and red-shifts of those galaxies led to the conclusion that the Universe is accelerating. This expriment is intended to reduce the statistical errors of that data and more firmly establish that the Universe is accelerating.
• Measuring the Hubble Constant
  1998. Univ. of New South Wales, Australia.
• Cal Tech Observational Cosmology Group
• Max Tegmark's cosmic microwave background data analysis center: experiments
  Summary of recent data and links to experiments.
• Also see: Structure and Evolution of the Universe: SEU Missions, including the Observational Cosmology section. (NASA)
• Also see: Hubble Space Telescope

Dark Matter and Dark Energy

• Also see Cosmology, the section above.
• Also see Gravitational Lensing below.

Dark Matter

• Chandra Xray Observatory Center (AXAF):
• About Xray Astronomy - Dark Matter
  Nicely introduces the subject.
• Vera Rubin and Dark Matter
  excerpt from COSMIC HORIZONS: ASTRONOMY AT THE CUTTING EDGE, edited by Steven Soter and Neil deGrasse Tyson, AMNH. At Science Bulletins.Org.
• Vera C. Rubin
  Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution.
• Evidence for Dark Matter Astro 201 Cornell U. course page.
• Violence in the Cosmos
• Primer on Dark Matter
  Browse other parts of the website for related background.
• Chung-Pei Ma UC Berkeley
• ‘Dark matter’ forms a ghost universe that mirrors the observable one, says Berkeley astronomy professor Chung-Pei Ma UC Berkeley News.
• Dark Matter by Martin White, UC Berkeley.
• Explore the Science of Dark Matter
  UC Berkeley Cosmology Group Outreach educational pages. Tries to explain why something seems missing by examining various forms of evidence.
• Bell Labs Scientists Release First High-Resolution Images Of Cosmic Dark Matter
  Bell Labs 1997 news release about Anthony Tyson's work.
• DEEP Project - The Nature of Dark Matter
• MACHO Project Home Page
• The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) Princeton University.
  also see: Gravitational Lensing by Pete Newbury
• Deep Lens Survey
• Proposed Dark Matter Telescope
• Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Homepage
  UC Berkeley.
• Tour of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment
  This is a general level website. The experiment will try to trace back cosmic rays to high energy sources. One speculation is that it might detect dark matter annihilations. To be flown on Space Station. MIT.

Alternatives to Dark Matter Theory

• Stacy McGaugh Univ. of Maryland (author of the Low Surface Brightness galaxy paper below).
• The MOND Pages "MOdified Newtonian Dynamics"
  This website includes both popular level articles and a compilation of technical articles, and some humor.
  What's modified in MOND is Newton's second law (F = ma) applied to the gravitation law. Where acceleration is very small, e.g., at low gravitaional fields at the edge of galaxies and in intergalactic space, force becomes proportional to the acceleration squared a² instead of a. Remarkably, MOND also reproduces observations that are attributed to dark matter. So, how do you tell the difference?? Think about it. Both MOND and Dark Matter theories have problems.
• Evidence from Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxy data that supports an alternative to dark matter theories. This is a link to an abstract which has further links to the full paper (in .pdf, .gif, or postscript):
  CERN Preprint (astro-ph/9801102) Testing the Hypothesis of Modified Dynamics with Low Surface Brightness Galaxies and Other Evidence, by McGaugh, S ; de Blok, E
• A recent popular level article is:
  Does Dark Matter Exist? by Mordechai Milgrom (who first proposed MOND). Scientific American. August 2002.

Dark Energy

• Frontiers of the Universe
  See the Dark Energy section. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, NASA.
• High Redshift Supernova Search Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
• Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe PDF format.
  By Saul Perlmutter, article in Physics Today. April 2003.
• Unveiling the Dark Energy - The Expanding Universe
  By Paul Preuss. First Science Article.

Gravitational Lensing

• Introduction to Gravitational Lenses
  At MIRA's Field Trips to the Stars Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy. School level.
• Gravitational Lenses @ Violence in the Cosmos. (1995).
• Quasar as a Gravitational Lens @ ASTRO 201 General Topics Cornell University course
  A short illustration.
• Physics 240 Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology
  Has several sections devoted to Gravitational Lensing. Michael Richmond. RIT.
• Gravitational Lensing @ Cosmology: A Research Briefing
• MPA Gravitational Lensing Group
  Includes some educational papers and a tour of the subject. Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.
• Gravitational lensing Research at Jodrell Bank
  Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey (CLASS)
• Bhuvnesh Jain
  Assoc. Prof., University of Pennsylvania. Several pages about his Gravitational Lens and Cosmology research.
• Paul Schechter (MIT)
• Gravitational Lenses and the Hubble Constant [alternate]
  Actual title:  Distance Estimates From Time Delay Measurements of Multiply Imaged, Gravitationally Lensed QSOs.
• Einstein's Mirage
  A intermediate level paper in PDF format. MIT Physics Annual 2003.
• Introduction to Gravitational Lensing
• Gravitational Lens Atlas @ Ličge Gravitational Lensing Homepage
• Gravitational Lens Data Base
  This is more technical, although it has a collection of images.
• Gravitational Lensing in Astronomy
  By Joachim Wambsganss, Living Reviews in Relativity.
• Lensing Links
  Research Group of Prof. Joachim Wambsganss at Potsdam University
• See: Space Telescope Science Institute Home Page:
• HST Images by Subject

• Also see Dark Matter and Relativity Theory above.
  

Extra-Solar Planets

Research

• Exoplanets.Org - University of California Planet Search Project
  Includes links to news articles.
• University of St. Andrews Planet Search
  Look at the links for individuals in the Group for more details about the research.
• Planetary Origins Research Group U. Penn.
• Extra Solar Planets Research at Penn. State
• Formation & Evolution of Planetary Systems
  University of Arizona.
• Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search
• Includes suggested reading.
• Anglo-Australian Planet Search
• L'Institut d'Astrophysique de PARIS
• Beta Pictoris
• Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE
  Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE) spectrometer. Harvard.
• European Space Agency - Overview of Darwin Mission
  Proposed telescope mission to search for Earth-like planets.
• European Space Agency - Overview of Corot Mission
  Telescope mission to search for terrestrial-like planets. Also will do asteroseismology.

• The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
  Jean Schneider CNRS - Paris Observatory.
• ESA Space Science - How to find an extrasolar planet
• Pawel Artymowicz, Stockholm Observatory
• Planetary Systems and Their Changing Theories
  Based on a talk given in 1997, updated in 1999.
• The Evolution of Dust in the Terrestrial Planet Region of Circumstellar Disks Around Young Stars
  Diane Dutkevitch Ph.D. thesis

Media and Education

• Astrobiology Magazine News
  NASA. Has a section for New Planets, which includes extra-solar planets.
• HubbleSite: News about Extra-Solar Planets
• NPR Science Friday - Extrasolar Planets September 20, 2002.
• NOVA Online/Hunt for Alien Worlds
• Horizon - Planet Hunters
  March 16, 2000.
• Planet Hunters
  April 22, 1999. Australian Broadcasting Corp. Quantum TV series
• The New York Times - Extrasolar Planets
  Data and news coverage. Updated only until 2001.
• First Science.Com
  General level articles and news.
• Extrasolar Planets
  "The Search for the Extrasolar Planets: A Brief History of the Search, the Findings and the Future Implications" by George H. Bell, @ Arizona State University. He includes a discussion of the earlier work on Barnard's Star by Peter van de Kamp (Swarthmore).
• 51 Peg
  Educational page at The Electronic Universe Project.

• Also see Interstellar Medium links.
• Also see Exobiology.
• Also see the section about Our Solar System for more plantary science links.

Some Specific Topics Covered Elsewhere on this Website

• Exobiology, searching for life beyond Earth has its own page.
• More physics links are on the Physics Page.